Laravel blade file to word document

Question

I am passing data from my controller to my blade file, and then want to export the blade file to word document, so far things are controlled, I can export blade to word document, the issue is the document is not opening in Microsoft word it says "word found unreadable content in 1.docx". Below is the code that I am using

$view = View::make('advertisement.advt_template.template_dr')->with('advtData', $advtData->first())->render();
$file_name = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s')) . '_advertisement_template.docx';
$headers = array(
            "Content-type"=>"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
            "Content-Disposition"=>"attachment;Filename=$file_name"
        );
return response()->make($view, 200, $headers);

I am passing data to blade and then storing all information in a variable
creating a file name for reference
creating headers to be used when downloading file
making the response with blade content variable and header information

Any help will be appreciated

You could render your blade to HTML first, then use something like phpdocx to convert that HTML to a Word document. — Vikramjit SIngh, Aug 26 '19 at 11:45
Check this link https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/introduction/html-to-word-PHP — Vikramjit SIngh, Aug 26 '19 at 11:45
@VikramjitSIngh phpdocx gives this feature in paid version, as of now I am looking for open source solution — kkarayat, Aug 26 '19 at 12:00
I think https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord is your best option — David Allen, Aug 26 '19 at 14:27
@DavidAllen, I have tried with PHPOffice/PHPWord but the issue is when generating word from html template — kkarayat, Aug 27 '19 at 00:22
[Converting HTML to odt, doc, docx](https://stackoverflow.com/a/8384078/6521116) — LF00, Sep 02 '19 at 08:45

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '19 at 06:59

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You could render your blade to HTML first, then use something like phpdocx to convert that HTML to a Word document.

answered Aug 31 '19 at 06:59

Mahdi Bashirpour

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phpdocx is not open source, I am looking for open source solution – kkarayat Aug 31 '19 at 08:02

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '19 at 11:19

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This is part of my old project that loads the result of some view as a msword document. Of course you can change the style section as you want

header('Content-Type: application/vnd.msword');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.doc"');
header('Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate');
?>
<head>
<style>
@page {
    size: A4 landscape;
    margin: 1.25cm 2cm 1.5cm 2cm;
}
p { font-size:16px; margin-top:0; padding-top:0 }
table { font-size:14.3px }
h1 { font-size:18.5px; text-align:center;  }
h2 { font-size:16px; text-align:left; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0 }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Your html -->
</body>
</html>

answered Aug 28 '19 at 11:19

splash58

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my html has a table with nested table inside it and that is why when the word document generates, it shows xml error in microsoft word, for open office it is okay, do you have any solution for that ?? – kkarayat Aug 28 '19 at 11:22
In that case html has some tables without any problem. But I'm not sure about nested. Really i don't make xml, just give html to msword to interpret it – splash58 Aug 28 '19 at 11:26
I have done the same created html with table passed it to msword for interpreting, but it says "XML Error" – kkarayat Aug 28 '19 at 14:22
@kkarayat can you put anywhere something as result of `var_export($view);` because its impossible to reproduce the problem – splash58 Aug 28 '19 at 14:28

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 28 '19 at 02:50

I would try something like this:

<?php
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");
  header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=document_name.doc");    
  echo "<html>";
  echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=Windows-1252\">";
  echo "<body>";
  echo "<b>My first document</b>";
  echo "</body>";
  echo "</html>";
?>

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 02 '19 at 04:55

Here is the demonstration of how to accomplish it.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>  
 <html>  
      <head>  
           <title>HTML to Word</title>  
           <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" />  
           <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>  
           <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>  
      </head>  
      <body>  
           <br /><br />  
           <div class="container" style="width:800px;">  
                <br />  
                <h3 align="center">The Big Title</h3>  
                <br />  
                <form method="post" action="ROUTE_HERE">  
                     <label>Enter Title</label>  
                     <input type="text" name="heading" class="form-control" />  
                     <br />  
                     <label>Enter Description in HTML Formate</label>  
                     <textarea name="description" class="form-control" rows="10"></textarea>  
                     <br />  
                     <input type="submit" name="create_word" class="btn btn-info" value="Export to Doc" />  
                </form>  
           </div>  
      </body>  
 </html>

Controller/PHP

public function process(Request $request){
    $heading = $request->input('heading');
    $description = $request->input('description');

    header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");  
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=".rand().".doc");  
    header("Pragma: no-cache");  
    header("Expires: 0");  
    echo '<h1>'.$_POST["heading"].'</h1>';  
    echo $_POST["description"];
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 11 '23 at 22:32

I'm using this and it works form me. You can try it:

$view = view('advertisement.advt_template.template_dr')->with('advtData', 
$advtData->first())->render();
$file_name = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s')) . '_advertisement_template.doc';
$headers = array(
    "Content-type"=>"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
    "Content-Disposition"=>"attachment;Filename=$file_name"
);
return Response::make($content,200, $headers);

Laravel blade file to word document

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